Trucking pay in High Desert Utah nonmetropolitan area

In High Desert Utah nonmetropolitan area, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earn a median of $59,380 a year ($28.55 an hour), across 3,040 jobs. Figures are from the 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

That is 1.3% above the national median of $58,640 for this occupation.

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

3,040 employed in High Desert Utah nonmetropolitan area, median $59,380 a year.

Light truck drivers

550 employed in High Desert Utah nonmetropolitan area, median $41,690 a year.

Driver/sales workers

400 employed in High Desert Utah nonmetropolitan area, median $21,220 a year.

Industrial truck and tractor operators

200 employed in High Desert Utah nonmetropolitan area, median $52,090 a year.

Dispatchers, except police, fire and ambulance

— employed in High Desert Utah nonmetropolitan area, median $51,830 a year.

First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers

440 employed in High Desert Utah nonmetropolitan area, median $63,970 a year.

How to read these figures

These are wages as reported by employers, not owner-operator revenue: they exclude what an owner-operator grosses and the costs that come out of it. A dash means the survey did not publish that figure for this area, which it withholds where publishing it would identify an employer.